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I spent a lot of time at the Menasha pool in the summers of my youth. Swimming lessons in the morning (so cold!!!), home for lunch, then bike back to the pool for the afternoon swim. And always had to stop by the bubbler by the water tower on 2nd St. on the way home.

Practically lived their during the 50s / 60s during the summer.... after swim lessons in the morning they had a free swim, so you could swim for about an hour, go home, eat lunch and come back till 5 -- go home, eat supper, come back till 9. then race home like a maniac so you could stop at the Tastee Freeze (now Coenens Auto Repair) and have a snack on the way home...

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Menasha was carved from the northeastern Wisconsin wilderness in the late 1840s. At the confluence of the Fox River and Lake Winnebago, the town’s early entrepreneurs and industrialists sought the promise of waterpower to fuel their mills and kick-start the engine of commerce. Taming the Fox with dams, canals, and a lock, Menasha initially made its mark with flour mills and lumber-based industry. At one time, the city was home to the largest manufacturer of wood-turned products in the world. In the late 19th century, however, the tides of change once again washed upon the city and industrial focus shifted to the paper industry. What made Menasha great were dependable waterpower, plentiful rail connections to centers of commerce in Milwaukee and Chicago, and a prolific labor force that coincided with an influx of European immigrants.